Health Economist - Ethiopia

About the role

Palladium, a global consulting and implementation company, is hiring a Health Economist in Ethiopia for its America First project, which strengthens health systems, health financing and public financial management. Reporting to the Health Care Financing Lead, the economist applies health economics methods to inform policy and investment decisions for the Ministry of Health, the Ethiopian Health Insurance Service and other government counterparts.

Key responsibilities

• Economic evaluation: design, coordinate and quality-assure cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-benefit, budget impact, return-on-investment, and equity analyses, plus health expenditure and public expenditure reviews.
• Build and maintain economic, financial and actuarial models, and oversee household, facility and provider surveys.
• Support community-based health insurance design, including contribution and premium levels, risk pooling, subsidies and indigent financing.
• Lead affordability and ability-to-pay analyses, and support benefit package design and strategic purchasing and provider payment mechanism pilots.
• Strengthen health resource tracking, fiscal space analysis, domestic resource mobilization and program-based budgeting.
• Contribute to health financing indicators, MEL tracking and the generation of policy briefs, reports and manuscripts.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Health Economics, Economics, Health Financing, Public Health, Development Economics, Public Policy, Statistics or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in health economics, health financing, public financial management or health systems strengthening.
• Experience with economic evaluations, costing studies, health expenditure analyses, survey design and health financing reforms.
• Experience with government institutions, donors and international organizations; U.S. Government and multilateral organization experience is highly desirable; experience in Ethiopia is preferred.

Required skills

• Advanced econometrics, applied econometrics and quantitative analysis.
• Proficiency in Stata, R or Python and advanced Excel; Power BI or Tableau is an advantage.
• National health accounts methods, health insurance systems, strategic purchasing and provider payment mechanisms.
• M&E concepts, indicator development and impact evaluation.